Chapter 7

"ALL RISE AND CELEBRATE" a man in a white robe yelled to a crowd below him

"FOR A NEW HERO CANDIDATE HAS BEEN BORN, HOPE HIS NAME WILL BECOME A NAME OF LEGEND, ALUCARD, MY OWN SON"

The man held a baby above his head, some people thought the baby itself was glowing with golden light.

The man speaking to the crowd was the high pope Gabriel, one of the highest powers of the holy kingdoms and argued to be one of the most powerful men politically in the entire continent.

But some people in the crowd were not pleased by the news of a hero candidate being born.

A man looked up at the baby and felt fear

'A great calamity is about to fall on this continent, and for a hero candidate to be born, I must warn his highness'

Meanwhile at the same moment

"Arthur, what you reading?"

Seen walking on the road into town was a boy no older than 7 reading and a dog small dog right next to him

"I don't really know, it's a book the towns Mayor leant me a while back, it's filled with stories about hero's and dragons and stuff"

The dog looked up at Arthur, it slowly started to lose fur and started to grow and bend in weird angles slowly turning into a hominid shape.

"Dude do you really need to do that, it's disgusting to watch" Arthur complained

"don't look if you don't like what you see, give me my clothes" the other boy responded

This other child was obviously Toby, and he and some control over his powers.

"Anyway, tell me more about this book about dragons"

"it nothing much, it's just mostly just theories about how dragons came to be, one says that there an experiment of a mad wizard, another says that there the ancestors of all demon beasts in one way or another"

"I'd like to meet a dragon, I here thay were very powerful" Toby replied

"Shame, they apparently went extinct along with the vampires"

"I know that, but I'd still like to meet one"

Toby and Arthur continued to speak about nothing as they walked into town.

As the 2 boys walked aimlessly around town window shopping when they heard a voice in the distance

"Oi dog boy, come here"

The 2 boys turned around and saw 3 children no older than 10, 1 of which skin was made of stone

"I want another rematch," the middle child said walking forward.

This happened every time the boys came into town, Ryan, one of the local boys, whold challenge Toby to a fight, which Toby would always win.

"It's not ganna end the same way as last time, mutt, my uncle Andrew come to visit and he's taught me a few things"

Arthur was used to being ignored in this situation, people assumed he wasn't as strong as the other kids due to him being the youngest, and he didn't mind, he had no interest in fighting other kids due to him mentally being in his 20s

"Want me to stay?"

"Nah you can go on ahead, I'll catch you up later," Toby said as he was slowly turning back In into his dog form, only this time he was slightly bigger and more dangerous looking

Arthur held his thumb up to the sky and looked like he was measuring a line only he could see, a trick he learnt from his mother.

'Hey, my uncle does that sometimes, I wonder what it means' Ryan thought to himself

"Alright, I need to meet up with the towns Mayor soon anyway, I'll talk to you later"

"Alright, bye Arthur"

Arthur made his way to the towns Hall located just to the side of towns Square and walked in, the building also dubbed as a job hub, a place where multiple guilds such as formation masters and adventures can collect work.

Arthur walked right in as if it was natural and made his way to the second floor, where he saw Marian the mayor's daughter and security sitting at her desk outside the office

"Morning Marian"

"good morning Arthur" the woman replied

"Is Your father available, we have a lesson scheduled for today"

"He isn't I'm afraid, he had an emergency meeting with someone from out of town, but it should be finished up soon, why don't you take a seat"

"Okey" the boy replied, pulling out his book and continued reading it

"Oh? Is that the book father lent you?"

"Yeah, have you read it"

"I haven't personally but father used to talk about it quite fondly"

Arthur always enjoyed talking to Marian and even was crushing on her a little, but due to the physical age difference, it would never be possible, even if it was Arthur didn't have the confidence in his last life for this kind of stuff.

The two talked until the door behind Marian opened and a man walked out

"I must thank you for your cooperation, and I look forward to working with this town in the future"

The man turned around and looked around the room, he was waring a white robe and his eyes and a hint of gold in them, he looked to Marian and smiled before walking out the room, completely ignoring Arthur.

'I wonder who he is'